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Geography containing QA-QZ

Can you guess these places from around the world whose names contain the sequence of letters "qa", "qb", and so on? I have given some crossword-type clues to assist in working out the missing letters of the answers.

E.g. the clue "Mo on endless Zambia journey in the east" could be MO-ZAMBI-(qu)-E.
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Answer
QA
The first character follows the last; they are building a city in Jordan (5 letters)
Zarqa
QB
Mother gives an excellent mark to hotel in a district of Yemen (8)
Maqbanah
QC
Afghan city in a hot area (5)
Aqcha
QD
Air mixture, a type of transmission developed in this Azeri village (7)
Arıqdam
QE
Iranian city where large containers are heard being set up (6)
Saqqez
QF
Suzanne has to have the answer, being at a lake in a western area of Egyptian town (13)
Sumusţā al Waqf
QG
The sound of laughter begins in an avenue of Hamedan, Iran, where a guy has nothing (14)
Haqgouyan Street
QH
Yankees replace natives in Central America, repeatedly, and at one Bolivian mountain (14)
Aqhuya Aqhuyani
QI
Chinese metropolis of Sichuan province (9)
Chongqing
QJ
To go back up a steep mountain of Uzbekistan achieves nothing, and is a nuisance (11)
Oqjetpes Tog`
QK
Internet service provider based in town of Kazakhstan (5)
Aqköl
QL
O'Neal lays down the rules for first Atlanta Hawks game at Iraqi village (9)
Shaqlāwah
QM
Uzbek town also spelled Akmangit (8)
Oqmang‘it
QN
The true, established one resides in this Georgian locale (7)
Tsqnet’i
QO
Sort of mish-mash at a town of Tajikistan (9)
Ishqoshim
QP
Town in Pakistan where reports of a great white are recorded by Omar (14)
Sharqpur Sharif
QQ
River estuary which flows through a suburb of Kuwait City (5)
Riqqa
QR
Iraqi town with , oddly, a synagogue at its hub (5)
‘Aqrah
QS
A Kazakh town where one can tell what's going on (5)
Aqsay
QT
City of rubbish in Uzbekistan (6)
Oqtosh
QU
Cocktail island that is a French territory in the Caribbean (10)
Martinique
QV
Real itch to travel to town of Abkhazia (10)
Tqvarch'eli
QW
The projecting section of a crane, a large piece of machinery, with one end missing from the arm, found on a mountain in Sudan (11)
Jibal Maqwar
QX
Guatemalan village where we find the Queen of Spain, the first of Balearic origin (8)
Q'eqxibal
QY
Palestinian town on the gulf of Tripoli, the capital - central Libya having been destroyed (9)
Bayt Liqyā
QZ
Mountain in Iran where the king of Hungary spends a long period of years (8)
Kūh-E Raqz
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